FAP401: What to do if your loan is declined, Kazakhstan all over the place, Matthew Ebel

Student Financial Aid News
+ Albion College goes electronic for award letters, another school joining the awarding of aid electronically
+ Lafayette College has become the latest institution to protest the genocide in Darfur by ordering its investment managers to avoid holdings in companies with ties to the government in Sudan.
+ Avoid overspending during the holidays - start by cleaning house
+ In lighter news, from the Chronicle of Higher Education: Attention, college frat boys. If getting drunk is a key part of your undergraduate experience, try to avoid being filmed while plastered. By a Hollywood production company. For a movie that becomes a box-office hit. Or at least try to avoid asserting on camera that you long for the return of slavery.
+ All of those things happened to two people who are identified in the satirical movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, as students in the Chi Psi fraternity at the University of South Carolina (presumably the Columbia campus). Moviegoers around the world are now laughing at their drunken antics.

Scholarship Update
+ IREX Short-Term Travel Grants Program
+ Fellowships for up to eight weeks to US postdoctoral scholars and holders of other graduate degrees for independent or collaborative research projects in Europe and Eurasia.
+ Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
+ Be a US citizen or permanent resident (green card holder) of the US for three consecutive years prior to application.
+ Submit a research proposal on a topic in one of the academic disciplines listed on page 2 of the application.
+ Hold a PhD or other terminal degree.
+ Submit a complete application package by the deadline.
+ Have fulfilled all requirements from previous IREX grants.
+ Not be a current IREX employee or consultant or their immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, and siblings)
+ Detailed information at our free scholarship search site
+ Now worth $3,895,738,673 in scholarships!
+ Search term: Kazakhstan scholarship

Focus on Financial Aid
+ What to do when you've been turned down for a loan
+ Conditions under which you can be declined
+ Stafford Federal Student Loans - no certification/authorization
+ Private student loans - bad or insufficient credit
+ Any loan type - mistakes on applications
+ How to reapply? In most cases, phone in to see what needs to be done
+ File a FAFSA correction if appropriate for federal student loans
+ Reapply with a different cosigner or a cosigner if you didn't have one for private student loans

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